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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BATTLE occurs
3 times
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1.
... battle-grounds many
an evening.
BB p.105,
To Wives
Our
homes have been
battle-
grounds many an
evening.
2.
... battle of
life.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
As to our
grandiose behavior, we
insisted
that we had been
possessed of
nothing but a
high and
legitimate ambition to
win the
battle of
life.
3.
... battle was
not there.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
The
courage to do
battle
was not there.
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